Salvadoran man gets 1 year for illegal re-entry

Oct. 3, 2013

Written by

Ce’Dra Jackson

The Tennessean

A Salvadoran man was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Nashville to one year and one day in federal prison for re-entering the United States illegally.

Jose Orlando Orellano-Flores, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of illegal re-entry by a previously deported aggravated felon. Flores was indicted in April after he was stopped for a traffic violation in Nashville and the officer found that he had been previously deported.

It was discovered that Flores had a warrant for his arrest when he helped translate for his wife at the immigration courts in May.

Flores was deported in January 2006 after being convicted of first-degree burglary and grand theft in 1998. He later returned to the U.S. in 2006.

“I feel sorry for my wife, and I can’t help support my kids,” Flores said in court. “They are everything that I have. I have a newborn baby that I haven’t even held.”

Once Flores serves his time, he will be deported back to El Salvador.

Ce’Dra Jackson is a reporter for the Seigenthaler News Service–TSU. She can be reached at cebojac@gmail.com.